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• Is late better than never? Not if it’s too late

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 135
  The Economist’s cartoonist, Kal, captured the struggle to come up with a meaningful compromise in the upcoming COP15 summit. A bit of gallows’ humour:     Soource: economist.com Punchline: do not wait for the horses to bolt in order to close the stable doors.   H/T: MS, for sharing the link  
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• What makes a nation rich?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 452
  The answer from MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. “Say you’re a world leader and you want your country’s economy to prosper. According to this Clark Medal winner from MIT, there’s a simple solution: start with free elections.” Read more: ...
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• I love Walmart: my wife hates it. Help!

  
  Tim Harford — Authority: 462
  Dear Economist, My newlywed wife and I are deeply in love. There is, however, one issue that threatens the blissful fabric of our marriage. I absolutely insist upon shopping at Walmart. My wife, meanwhile, would rather avoid Walmart at all costs. I have recently tried to convince her that not only does Walmart offer ...
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• It’s not just Scrooge who wants Christmas abolished

  
  Tim Harford — Authority: 462
  Nobody has done more to damage relations between the joyous commercial festival that is Christmas and the economics profession than Joel Waldfogel. Long-term readers of this column will be well aware of Professor Waldfogel’s research paper, “The Deadweight Loss of Christmas”. Ever since it was published in 1993 ...
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• Port Huron Tops Mallards - OurSports Central (press release)

  
  Webkinz - Collectible Stuffed Animal Toys — Authority: 140
  Port Huron Tops MallardsOurSports Central (press release)In addition to the Webkinz giveaway, after Sundays game fans in attendance will have the chance to lace up their skates and join the Mallards on the ice … Related External Links How Weather Influences Attendance | Lee in Haiti Nationals ...
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• Dear Economist: I love Walmart: my wife hates it. Help!

  
  The Undercover Economist — Authority: 463
  My newlywed wife and I are deeply in love. There is, however, one issue that threatens the blissful fabric of our marriage. I absolutely insist upon shopping at Walmart. My wife, meanwhile, would rather avoid Walmart at all costs.I have recently tried to convince her that not only does Walmart offer the lowest prices ...
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• Something liberals and conservatives can agree on -- health reform bills wont help keep costs down for middle class families.

  
  Minnesota Family Council — Authority: 423
  The more one learns about the health reform bills the more concern one should become concerned. A review of the House health care bill finds a massive marriage penalty for middle and upper middle income families. The result? An incentive not to get married in order to obtain health insurance. One observer said ...
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• I, Pencil

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  This is a fascinating piece about a common pencil, written in 1958 it looks at the miraculous synergy that occurs, to make the seemingly common pencil, I hope you are inspired by this, I was! It is a testament to the fact that markets do in fact, offer so much good to people all around the world, that humans dealing ...
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• Start-up nations

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  A drive to turn the whole world into entrepreneurs AN OPPOSITION is supposed to oppose, of course—but Britain’s Conservative Party, poised on the brink of power, is sending an odd message by pledging to scrap the country’s annual Enterprise Week, which began this year on November 16th. Apparently, this is ...
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• Unique selling proposition

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia Uniqueness is rare, and coming up with a continuous stream of products with unique features is, in practice, extremely difficult A unique selling proposition (USP) is a description of the qualities that are unique to a particular product or service and that differentiate it in a way ...
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• Readership up for many business pubs

  
  Talking Biz News — Authority: 613
  Lucia Moses of MediaWeek reports that readership increased in the past year for a number of business publications. Moses writes, “At a time when it would seem that consumers would be seeking help to navigate the recession, business titles have seen an uptick in readership this past year, Mediamark Research & ...
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• Vehicle telemetry

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia Tapping remotely into a car’s data systems provides lots of useful services IN THE early hours of the morning two men are robbed at gunpoint and ordered out of their Chevrolet Tahoe. The thief jumps in and roars off, but he does not get far. The vehicle is fitted with a telemetry system ...
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• Ryan Pyle Blog: The Economist

  
  Ryan Pyle - Documentary Photographer — Authority: 110
  Hello. Why does the Economist hate photographers so much? I mean, they dont really hate photographers. The Economist is a big picture buyer and their magazine is getting thicker and thicker each year. My reason for my opening statement is that they dont credit any photography; and recently they used one of my images ...
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• The Uproar Over Mammography

  
  Economix — Authority: 746
  An economist asks whether the new breast-exam guidelines were really about saving money.
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• Euroarea in Recessions- a comparison

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 537
  ECB’s November monthly bulletin  (heavy pdf file) has a short research note comparing the performance of Euroarea in previous recessions. To do a comparison of recessions in Euroarea is always a mighty job. The decline in investments, consumption, employment, wages is much the same as in previous recessions. ...
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• Fed’s role in Payments systems

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 537
  Thomas Hoenig of Kansas Fed has an interesting speech on payments system in US. He points that much of the growth in payments system  is happening in private sector with no regulatory oversight. The payment system is also being run by a few large players and there is little competition. So far it is all good as ...
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• Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the principle of the bigger ...
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• Record Lates to Head Higher

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 451
  Residential delinquency of at least 30 days, including foreclosures, shot up 1.25 percent in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s third-quarter National Delinquency Survey . It was "the highest ever recorded" based on MBA data back to 1972. MBA’s chief economist predicted that "delinquency rates and foreclosure ...
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• Data Continues to Forecast a Jobs Recovery

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 647
  The Good News Economist submits: This week saw additional signs that this recovery will be anything but a jobless one. On Monday the Empire State Manufacturing Survey was released. Amidst a report that shows continued manufacturing growth in the region came this assessment from the document: "Future indexes ...
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• Lessons from New Deal

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 537
  Lee Ohanian summarises the broad lessons from Great Depression and his huge research in this speech . He says the depression was mainly because of the New Deal. The failure to recover is puzzling, because economic fundamentals improved considerably after 1933. Productivity growth was rapid, liquidity was ...
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